Quotes About Debate

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Scholarship is polite argument.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.